My Saturday chore list was bulging this morning and wasn’t helped by the long lie our little darlings granted us. You need to seize the opportunities presented so it wasn’t exactly a bright and early start. After sorting out the kitchen and the ironing and the washing up etc things seemed to slow down a little and it ended up being quite a chilled afternoon and evening.The kids were in great form after a good night’s sleep and were incredibly happy and smiley all day. You feel you can take on anything when you have those two kicking around, no matter what life throws at you. Before Saturday becomes Sunday, I’ll run through today’s top 5, which are all things I found myself doing at various points during the last 24 hours and had to double take.
1. Cutting up hot dogs to put in the Mac and cheese. I was left to my own devices when rustling up some lunch for everyone and opted for a bit of pasta. I stumbled across a tin of hot dogs and before I knew it I was chopping them up to mix in, just to satisfy the kids. Such delicacies are just a perk of parenthood. Apparently. 
2. Dancing in the lift. We popped to the shops and whilst the girls whipped around Sainsburys, the boys headed to Next. As we were hoping the boy was going to have a nap (false hope of course) he was in the pushchair so we had to use the lift to go upstairs. Coronavirus rules mean we had to be in there by ourselves and because there was a mirror we decided to have a bit of a boogie. We stopped just before the doors opened but it had occurred to me that there might have been CCTV in there. 
3. Watching Frozen 2 and realised I was singing along to the soundtrack with concerning knowledge of a lot of the words. Perhaps it comes with the territory of having two small children but I really need to be careful not to let on to the wider public that I have quite so much Frozen knowledge! 
4. Picking bunchems out of a My Little Pony’s mane for about an hour after E thought it was a good idea to combine those two toys. If you are lucky enough not to understand what I’m talking about then please don’t ask. Embrace the ignorance! Apparently my hard work counts for nothing as the pony is just going in the bin – wish I’d been told that before I wasted part of my day! 
5. Shouting “don’t kick your sister in the head” at M. It seems to be a regular utterance which really isn’t a good thing and I’ve been paying a bit more attention to the phrases I am using. I think if someone was just outside and listening in, they would be very worried about what was going on. Other classics today included: “Get your finger out of my bum crack”, “Do NOT poo on me” and “Stop licking the TV”. 
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